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terça-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2014

NABBO Tea Cup 2014 - The Report!

As previously announced on the blog, this past Sunday NABBO Tea Cup
tournament has managed to get most of it's league crew together, for
yet another super day, with abusive loads of BB chitchat, miniature
showcase and dice rolling cursing.
As usual, a great fun time, and
a wonderful opportunity to mingle with NABBO League old timers, that
real life tends to keep away from each other.

This
forth edition of the tournament had yet another amazing milestone to
point out, our BB league 15th anniversary! (You know our motto: "Failing
Go-For-It's since 1999", well, just do the math...)

For
that very special reason, the tournament organization decided that this
year's custom dice had to be somehow special, so what better way to
represent that than make them "golden"?
Kudos to Chessex for them, as they are plain lovely, and the engraving is fantastic - as usual.

The
only downside this year, was that we had a couple of friends that had
previous commitments, therefore couldn't attend to the tournament, and
since we're such a small league, any missing coach is heavily noticed.
Apart from that, it was a bright and sunny Sunday and a great gaming
environment, and that's what matter the most.

The games
This
year, most "fineness" races forgot - or cowered - to show up. Since we
had a tournament thematic house rule that would make two big stones
move, randomly, in the pitch during the match, that would auto-blitz
anyone in their path, that may have scared the pointy ears away.
(You can spot those "drifting stones" in the pics below: they're big, sand-yellow, and moved everywhere on the pitch. Beware!)

Being
quite busy with the initial logistics of the tournament, I completely
forgot to have pics taken from the first round of the tournament, so,
the following images are from the the second and third rounds
respectively...

Ulric Uber Alles (a Human team with Norse ancestry) vs Mandelbrot Marauders (Chaos Pact)A
close game that ended with a 2-1 TD win for the MM (1-1 Cas). Coming
from a tie, but benefiting from not-so-good game results of his direct
contenders, this win gave the MM's just enough points to have a shot at
the title in it's last game.

Playing in a Swiss system tournament (winners facing each other) the toughOstrok Iceclaws (Norse) faced another first round winners, the Kraka Drak Dozers
(Dwarf). An rampaging start from the OI, granted them the opening TD
around turn 4, after an amazing pass (the norse thrower marked by two
dwarfs), to a catch skilled runner (also marked by two
opponents), that managed to dodge out and score in the same play.
Unfortunately for the norse, the 4 final turns of the drive saw the
dwarves KOd and Injure a handful of the Iceclaws, and equalising before
the end of the half.
With three players missing in the pitch, and
an Icetroll that refused to cooperate every other turn, the OI where
unable to hold the Dozers for their 2nd half advance, and ended up
loosing the game by 2-1 TD (Cas 3-0).

Black Ferns (Amazon) game vs. The Troopers(Human)
After
a 1-1 draw in their first game, the zons entered the pitch with the
right attitude, managing to score first, and then, even after the
Troopers tied the game, the BF did score again.
But as the turns
went by, so did some of the Black Ferns (to the Injured box), and being
really outnumbered in the final turns had costed them another tie (2-2)
Cas (0-2).

In the last round of the day, and playing for the Wooden Spoon (or away from it), the Ulric
Uber Alles (Human), facedanother human team, The Troopers. Plenty of loose balls, and back&forward playsended up with a win for the UUA by 3-1TD (0-2 Cas).

Rumours say that Nuffle
kept a very watchful eye on The Troopers team during the whole event,
making sure the Wooden Spoon wouldn't go anywhere else: bad dice rolls
were a constant since round one (with the team finishing the game with
only one player on the pitch), right until the last round (when every
single dodge or pass attempt would result in a complete fail).

The tournament was won by the Kraka Drak Dozers (Dwarf), which in their last match faced the Mandelbrot Marauders (Chaos Pact), both aiming to win the Most Casualties trophy right from the start.

Despite
the astonishing feat of achieving 12 Cas during the three tournament
games (an absolute record for all NTC tournaments), the KDD dwarfs where
denied their trophy because in the complex process of maiming their
opponents, they ended up winning all their games thus winning the
tournament!

Faithful to the "Spread the Wealth"
tournament rule, the organization allotted the Most Casualties trophy
to the second best at mangling opponents: the Mandelbrot Marauders!

A shout out to Fred from the Ligue des Quatre Nation (SBG in the TFF forum), for sponsoring a "Second Best of the NTC "
prize (tournament 2nd highest place), with one of the lovely coins
they've custom made for their 2014 tournament. The well deserving
winners were the Black Ferns (Amazons).

Just to finish up, here's a pic of the tournament SWAG (thematic dugout and custom dice).

We may still have a couple dugouts, and a few more dice to part with, so if you're interested, please drop me a PM on TFF forum.